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...mailboxes across the country last week, the letter that brought whoops or wails finally arrived. It came from one of the East's eight Ivy League men's colleges or the Seven Sisters women's colleges. Some kids took it with aplomb. When Brian Silver, 17, slammed into the house from Denver's East High School, his mother handed him two letters. He opened them coolly and said: "I've been accepted by Yale and Harvard. I think I'll go to Harvard." His calm was rare. On Long Island, N.Y., Ciba Ruth Vaughan...
...road used to mean extreme discomforts for audiences as well as touring actors, while Broadway theaters were havens of relaxation. Today the situation is just about reversed. "Broadway is ostensibly the center of the theater industry," said Actor Brian Aherne last week, recalling a cross-country tour of Dear Liar (TIME, March 28). "But it is elsewhere, all over the U.S., that you find the modern facilities and the new theaters...
Dear Liar is a "comedy of letters" that Actor-Director Jerome Kilty wove out of the 40-year correspondence between Mrs. Patrick Campbell and Bernard Shaw. What results is no play, nor is it meant to be. Katharine Cornell and Brian Aherne are intentionally dramatic instruments rather than impersonators. In form, the whole thing, which reached Broadway after a road tour of 66 cities, most resembles a set of verbal duets. Adapter Kilty, with an ingenious try, displays neat workmanship, and the two stars have gone gallantly at their rather anomalous roles. But pleasant and provocative as it is, Dear...
...York Post editorial promoted Paar to a lonely maverick fighting for the Bill of Rights. And the New York Jour nal American's TV critic, Jack O'Brian, countered Paar's argument that his studio audience had approved of the joke. That, pontificated O'Brian, was no moral judgment; after all, "a majority killed Christ...
...front of McGarry will be his stalwart defensemen, co-captains Brian Mulloy and A1 Soares, who rarely leave the ice. At center will be high scorer Dave Kelley, a swift skater who tallied the only goal against Providence, and was involved in all three goals against...